Why did Evan Bayh wait until the last minute?
Just heard this on Ed Schultz…
It turns out, Evan Bayh decided not to run about a week ago, but waited tell Dem leaders, because he wanted to make sure they wouldn’t have time to pick a new nominee. Normally, if there isn’t a nominee, there isn’t primary, and the challenger wins by default, sort of.
Since there is no time to choose a nominee in this particular case, Evan Bayh’s senior inside blue-dog, anti-union / anti-labor co-horts get to pick the nominee. Normally, the new challenger/nominee needs to get at least 500 signatures in all nine districts of Indiana. But, again, since there isn’t enough time to do that, Evan Bayh – or rather, his people, will get to pick the nominee.
And we all know how much this guy just loves the conservatives…
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